Gene Plowden, 79, journalist, author and expert on the...

August 1, 1985

SARASOTA — Gene Plowden, 79, journalist, author and expert on the circus, died Tuesday. Plowden, who retired from The Associated Press in 1969, wrote numerous books about the circus including Those Amazing Ringlings and Their Circus, Singing Wheels and Circus Wagons, Women of the Circus, and Gargantua, Circus Star of the Century.